Sentences with phrase «learning about our genomes»

The more we learn about our genome, the more peculiar its workings appear.

Ever since a monk called Mendel started breeding pea plants we've been learning about our genomes.

In this video, ENCODE's lead coordinator, Ewan Birney, and Nature editor Magdalena Skipper talk about the challenges of managing this colossal project and what we've learnt about our genomes.

The course offers all learners an opportunity to learn about genomes, disease, and antimicrobial resistance.

Not exact matches

By analyzing the genome of a tiny fetal mummy known as Ata, researchers have learned more about what led to its strange - looking deformities — and that Ata was not an it, but a she.

That conversation, and the subsequent reading, motivated him to learn about the rogue genetic elements — transposons — that duplicate themselves within host genomes.

But everything we're learning from the human and animal genome projects, about the conservation of neurochemistries and the neuroanatomies, all of this points me to the conclusion that we are learning about ourselves when we study these little critters.»

While Jarvis and Genome 10K were deciding which avian genomes to sequence, with Jarvis making sure the list included vocal learners and species believed to be their close relatives, they learned about another collaboration in the works led by Guojie Zhang of Chinese sequencing giant BGI and University of Copenhagen evolutionary biologist Tom Gilbert.

Crowdfunding a genome Pryer worried that because no fern genome had ever been sequenced, what might be learned about these ancient plants — some of the oldest known vegetative of life forms on Earth — was highly limited.

By comparing our genetic make - up to the genomes of mice, chimps and a menagerie of other species (rats, chickens, dogs, pufferfish, the microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and many bacteria), scientists have learned a great deal about how genes evolve over time, and gained insights into human diseases.

«In the same way that the genome sequence of the platypus — a survivor of an ancient lineage — can help us study the evolution of all mammals, the genome sequence of Amborella can help us learn about the evolution of all flowers,» said Victor Albert of the University at Buffalo.

By comparing the genomes to one another as well as to those of nearly 240 previously studied ancient people from nearby regions and about 2,600 present - day people, the researchers learned that the first farming cultures in the Levant, Iran and Anatolia were all genetically distinct.

ENCODE's lead coordinator, Ewan Birney, and Nature editor Magdalena Skipper talk about the challenges of managing a colossal genetics project and what we've learnt about the human genome.

The human genome — the sum total of hereditary information in a person — contains a lot more than the protein - coding genes teenagers learn about in school, a massive international project has found.

«Though the degree to which human embryonic stem cells possess this feature is not entirely clear, by understanding how another complex organism's genome works we ultimately learn more about how our own genome works,» said Zhou.

I'm not trying to make race go away but to redefine it using what we have learned about biology through the Human Genome Project.

We don't yet know enough about the genetic roots of disease to help these early adopters learn much from their genomes.

Dillman explained that his research team also learned more about gene regulation and the evolution of genomes in general as it compared the five sequences with other nematodes.

But if you strip away all the paraphernalia then really what culture is about at its core is about innovations that are not encoded in the genome somehow and are passed on, not by genetic transmission, and are not sort of shaped by natural selection, which is the normal stuff of evolution; but it is transmitted socially through social learning.

Geneticist James Lupski had his genome sequenced to learn about his neurological disease.

«There does seem to be an upper bound of what we can learn about common diseases with multiple causes,» says Kraft, who thinks the paper illustrates why «we're not going to have a huge impact» on the average person with genome sequencing.

While the Human Genome Project revealed much about our common humanity, recently scientists have begun to learn a lot about human evolution from the small genetic differences that set us apart.

They want to learn more about their genome although they're not geneticists.

By combining and comparing data from worm, fly and human, researchers can learn far more about the functional elements than if they analyzed the genome of just one organism.

· - Learn about precision medicine opportunities beyond tumour genome sequencing, cancer therapeutics and metabolic conditions.

With teaching facilities in Long Island and New York City, it brings a hands - on approach to learning about biology and genomes to classrooms and homes of children in primary schools, middle schools, and high schools.

Learning more about this so - called «microbial dark matter» involves extracting microbial genomes from the amplified DNA of single cells and from metagenomes.

«Because scientists can selectively switch off genes in mice, more will be learnt about human disease from the mouse genome than from the human genome.

We now aim to reconstruct the genomes of a number of dominant bacterioplankton species in the Baltic to learn about their ecosystem functions», says Anders Andersson.

Berkeley Lab scientists have learned new details about how an important tumor - suppressing protein, called p53, binds to the human genome.

0:51 Skip to 0 minutes and 51 secondsIn this course, we will be learning about the bacteria which cause diseases, what the genomes look like, and how they evolve to become pathogens.

Through its pioneering personal genome analysis service deCODEme ™, deCODE enables individuals to better understand their risk of dozens of common diseases and to learn about their ancestry and other traits.

With about $ 540,000 provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program as part of the total project's $ 2.9 - million in funding, he will be able to learn whether that protein plays a similarly crucial role in crops like tomatoes.

In this article, we'll learn about the progress and goals of human - genome research, how we're already weeding out genetic diseases and about the future of «selecting» human offspring.

Before we look closely at heredity and genes, let's stop to consider what scientists have learned about animal and other genomes.

Meanwhile, to learn more about what makes these microbes tick, scientists are sequencing the genome of a species called Dehalococcoides ethenogenes.

And we now have the capacity to learn more about our genes than ever before with the various kinds of genome sequencing technologies available today.

Genes and the environment work together: the more we learn about genetics, and the more genomes we sequence, the harder it is to remember that our health is not fully predetermined.